What I mean by the title “America Is Not Free” is that all of our learned responses and opinions based on upbringing which fed us the illusions that afflict us all, is that we take our opinions and illusions with us when we sit down to read OpEdNews, to see what the dastardly George Bush and the Neocons have in store for America and the larger world.
If you have read this carefully, you might be able to discern my own illusions and prejudices – it is always easier to see others’ illusions than ones’ own – the log in your own eye versus the splinter in the others’ eye. That is, providing you are half awake!
Many of the writers on all the blogs are very well educated, well meaning people, and they write with passion about their topics. But very few seem to overcome their in-built prejudices and illusions, and either writes with misguided optimism that they can wake up the people of America, or the opposite, of decrying and bemoaning the fact that they cannot.
There is an awful amount of rubbish published on the Internet, myself being guilty, too. A modicum of discrimination is required, and some real deep thinkers are necessary in order to effect change in the USA political scene.
If none of that occurs then there is only one outcome, the people of America, due to the coming economic meltdown, the rapid lowering of the standard of living that will demolish the illusions that you all have been living under for so long, there will be a shift perhaps to a more Bastille approach or a Guy Fawks moment – eventually.
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